How do adults seriously convert to a religion?

I was brought up as a catholic but, like many others around me, grew out of it. I had assumed that religion was just a thing that people grow out of just like most people around me.
On that note, I can't fathom how people can "find god" as adults, or how they can continue believing into adulthood.
I... show more I was brought up as a catholic but, like many others around me, grew out of it. I had assumed that religion was just a thing that people grow out of just like most people around me.
On that note, I can't fathom how people can "find god" as adults, or how they can continue believing into adulthood.

I used to envy those who kept their faith, but I no longer do. I'm free to make up my own mind knowing there isn't a fathomless being in the sky watching and judging me.
(No matter what the Bible says, it has always been my understanding that God is either malevolent or powerless to allow the Earth to get into this state).

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Best Answer: They scare easy. fear is the force that makes people religious. Those who "believe" have been terrorized, traumatized into compliance. Without that huge element of terror, old Abe's religions would have floundered and passes away long ago. But, if they can scare infants enough, it sticks, and they have a money source as long as the trained dupe lives.
Religion is a very obvious con job, nothing but fear holds it together. Which is why christians make so many threats, and commit so many violent acts.

"Billions and billions of years ago, nothing burst into everything. Eventually, our sun and Earth formed, and the Earth cooled into rock. It rained on those rocks for millions and millions of years, until the rock turned to soup, and that soup became your great great great great grandfather."

Millions of adults are converted to that religion. It's called Evolutionism.

I knew one older lady who became Catholic because she had nightmares. She lived in China, has lived through the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, perhaps the civil war, Soviet occupstion, Japanese occupation...It made her feel better, so why not?

I often wonder that exact same thing. Along with the fact that believing in something with no proof or evidence is patently absurd in the least. That is a huge red flag indicating that your critical thinking skills and your ability to reason is severely flawed.

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How do adults seriously convert to a religion?

I was brought up as a catholic but, like many others around me, grew out of it. I had assumed that religion was just a thing that people grow out of just like most people around me.
On that note, I can't fathom how people can "find god" as adults, or how they can continue believing into adulthood.

I used to envy those who kept their faith, but I no longer do. I'm free to make up my own mind knowing there isn't a fathomless being in the sky watching and judging me.
(No matter what the Bible says, it has always been my understanding that God is either malevolent or powerless to allow the Earth to get into this state).